CHAPTER IX.
THE SECOND CAMPAIGN TO SPRINGFIELD.
Detention at Warsaw .-- A Bridge over the Osage .-- The Body-Guard .-- Manner of its Organization .-- The Advance to Springfield .-- Charge of the Body-Guard .-- A Corporal's Ruse .-- Occupation of Springfield--The Situation .-- Wilson Creek Revisited .-- Traces of the Battle .-- Rumored Movements of the Enemy .-- Removal of General Fremont .-- Danger of Attack .-- A Night of Excitement .-- The Return to St.Louis .-- Curiosities of the Scouting Service .-- An Arrest by Mistake.
The army was detained at Warsaw, to wait the construction of a bridge over the Osage for the passage of the artillery and heavy transportation.

Sigel's Division was given the advance, and crossed before the bridge was finished.

The main column moved as soon as the bridge permitted--the rear being brought up by McKinstry's Division.

A division from Kansas, under General Lane, was moving at the same time, to form a junction with Fremont near Springfield, and a brigade from Rolla was advancing with the same object in view.

General Sturgis was in motion from North Missouri, and there was a prospect that an army nearly forty thousand strong would be assembled at Springfield.
While General Fremont was in St.Louis, before setting out on this expedition, he organized the "Fremont Body-Guard," which afterward became famous.